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Grimmie wrote:Making some SLA usericons.
Dirk, Deej and Grim.

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Not that I'm trying to suggest Dirk's a sexual pest or anything..

Sweet

And the only reason the lady in the picture looks unimpressed is because Dirk has just told her he's got work to do, as result he can't take her on a voyage of sexual ecstasy.

One for the delightfully chatty Mr. Haynes, too.

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Right, when I get to the apartment, I shall do my usual Tracking skill roll, as well as a detect roll for good measure.

Tracking (7): 2,8 - 10 + 7 = 17
Detect (3): 6,7 - 13 + 3 = 16

You should have told me your place was broken into, I could have set up one of my new mini-cams to watch your door. Oh well, you want me to set one up in here now?

Also, I wouldn't be quite so certain that kids were the original thieves either, they could have just found your place open and unattended while we were meeting.

Well, there certainly looks to have been a lot of people in and out of the apartment recently. That's about as much as your tracking tells you. Detect tells you that the apartment is empty.

Okay, some of them were kids.

Grimmie stands by the door and looks into the room.

Short of the floorboards, I'm not sure what there's left to take. Don't think a camera's going to be much use.
We should start an investigation. Dirk, do you want to pick up some cheap equipment before we head out, or are you good to go?

I reckon the first plan of action is to talk to a couple of the other people who have had their place done over like this.
Does your Oyster have any names we can follow, Deject?

Yep, there's half a dozen names and addresses from the Shiver reports. The reports also mention eyewitness accounts of the culprits being a gang of around half a dozen children.

Dirk wrote:I'll do without the gizmos for now - other than the forensics kit I never really use the rest that much anyway.

Let's head for the nearest address and see what they can tell us.

Okay, skipping on then...

The first address is an SCL10.8 Frother named Willy. You find him at home, sat in the remains of his couch in his armour, watching a small TV with a bad picture, and belting back cans of Slosh before throwing them at said TV, regularly knocking it over and prompting a hail of foul language. His door is wide open, and it looks like he did over what wasn't already done with his Power Claymore.

Upon speaking to him you find him understandably pissed off. He was out on a BPN when he was robbed, so he didn't lose his armour or Power Claymore, but a load of 10mm ammo has gone along with the few valuables he had. He personally shook down his neighbours, one of whom told him that he'd run into a load of kids carrying stuff on his way to his room. Willy was unimpressed with his neighbour's lack of security-mindedness and made his point by taking his TV and beer. An hour and a half later the Shivers arrived and gave the TV back, so he had to borrow an old set from a squadmate. Willy reported the crime to the Shivers while they were there, who said they'd have a forensics tech out within the week. The occurence was last night.

Willy wrote:God damn Shivers get here in an hour and a half to get that fucking loser's TV back for him, but someone nicks my ammo, my TV, my beer and my cactus and it's a week's wait. Fucking cocksuckers. *Willy hurls a beercan out of the open window* They took my cactus, the bastards.

Did the cactus really tie the room together?

Willy wrote:Did it what? I don't know nothin' about Fong Shoe.

Never mind that. Did the Shivers do any investigation or ask around? It sounds like if we could get a sketch of the kid your neighbor saw we might be able to track him down.

Willy wrote:I told you, they didn't do shit. Just said they'd come back in a week.

Grimmie, to squadmates wrote:Funny that the Shivers would take so long to respond to something like this, there could be seven more robberies before they even get to inspect this one. Yours too, Dirk. Almost as if they want to delay things, no?

Might be worth getting some physical descriptions from eyewitnesses instead, see if we can get any names of the kids, find out who they are and if they're in some sort of gang, a group maybe? Come to think of it, it was only later on that all your big stuff went missing, right Dirk? Maybe they've got adults workin' with them to shift the heavy stuff too..

Deej', can you check if a BPN has been raised about this too, a cash reward would definitely be handy if we catch these guys, specially for Dirk.

Grimmie looks concerned for a moment, and then turns back to Willy.

Grimmie wrote:Hey, you know if any of your neighbours managed to see the movers at all, or if this building has some kind of surveilance we could check?

Dirk wrote:To be honest I reckon it's just standard Shiver procedure to stand around and scratch their arses for a while before doing anything. Ain't that right, Willy? As for the adults taking the big stuff, I reckon it was just some opportunists who happened to notice the front door was practically off its hinges.

As far as I'm aware there's no building security - not high class enough for that round here.

You heard about this gang of kids before, Willy? Or do you know anyone in the area that might be able to get some information for us? If we find these little angels I'll make sure they give you your cactus back.

It's worrying that whenever I read what Willy has said, it's always in Dog Pants' pseudo-Scots accent.

Yeah Grim, I'll check on that, and I'll also look up any known gang activity in the area. We should start getting descriptions as well. Willy, what apartment was the witness who saw the bastards legging it with your stuff in?

Do I need to do more computer use rolling?

Deej, you can make a roll to dig deeper into the records and try to make some connections now you've a bit more info.

Willy wrote:Aye, fucking Shivers only move fast round here if it's an easy job or there's something in it for them. They sure don't speed things up for the likes of us either. You could go try talking to them yourselves though, you look a bit more like people people than me. I dunno about any gangs of kids around here, but if you want to talk to Dan across the hall he's the guy I shook down earlier. He's a fucking lightweight but he's a'right. Here, take him one o'these. Make up for the beer I drank

Willy chucks Dirk a (unopened) can of Slosh*.

*Slosh - A powerful alcoholic drink which tastes like apples. Popular with Frothers, four cans would put most others on their arse.

Right, I rolled 1,8, so that gives me a 13.

Dirk wrote:Cheers for the help - we'll let you know how it goes.

Dirk walks to the other side of the corridor and knocks on Dan's door.

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